Didn’t get ANY sleep last night. A massive storm hit us, power went off, dogs in panic. I locked myself in my office with them, petting and calming music until early morning. Now the storm is gone, they are snoring and I’m here, disheveled, zombified, with a full day ahead. 🐶⛈️
dogs
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 →
Astro 🐶
Luna red riding hood 🐕
Throwback to a sandy summer day!! 🐶
Cozy couch + sunny winter day + comfy cute PJ! 🐕
Enjoying a little sun during winter!! 🐶
Happy new year!!! 🐶
Last day of 2022! This year went by fast!! 🐕
Lazy mornings… 🐕
Fresh air of the Mediterranean
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Yesterday we went to the beach. There was no one around, we could run off leash, smell the fresh air and dip our paws in the Mediterranean!! Exhausted dogs after a 9km walk through forest and sandy beach!!
Good morning! 🐶
First day of summer vacations!! 🐕
This weekend we went exploring the forest La Vallesa and the margins of the river Turia! 🐕
Luna
Thursday, June 18, 2020
Yesterday we celebrated exactly 15 days since Luna joined our family. Welcoming a second dog has been at the same time joy and challenge. 🐶 Here are three things I (re) learned about dogs in those past 2 weeks: Rising early and having a routine is essential. With the years, our routine with Astro has relaxed and he’s quite flexible. We could get up late during weekends. Not anymore! I’ve been rising early every day and really keeping the dogs in a bathroom-food-training schedule to help Luna adapt.
Early risers find the best light. 🐶☀️
The view from my desk 🐶
Day 3 of Luna. She’s crazy about food. Today she tried to steal a wooden spoon from the sink with rests of omelette on it. The spoon fell with a noise and I caught her in the act. She then pretended she was not at all interested and waltzed out of the kitchen. She also dances near garbage cans and licks her lips when she sees a cat. 🐶
24 hours together. Luna’s a little shy, but she already jumped on all beds and she found a great spot on the couch. She also tried to steal the garbage and has been brainstorming ways to get to the food the humans locked behind pantry doors. 🐕
BOOP!! 12 hours to Luna’s arrival! 🐶
Astro
Astro came into my life in 2013, when I lived in Sweden. I didn’t have friends, barely went out (only for groceries), got a major vitamin D deficiency, life sucked. I considered getting a cat, then realized I’d spend the rest of my life on the couch hugging the cat. A friend then told me how her golden retriever basically saved her from depression and how fun it was and how cute a golden puppy is and that was it. I decided I was going to ger my first dog!
Sweden is a great place to be a dog. Pups are welcome on the bus, on the subway, on boats, at bars, parks… We took Astro everywhere we went. The dog really had a great life rolling in the snow, exploring nature, mountains, beaches, lakes, and chasing ducks (until the day some swans chased us! It was awful!).
In 2016, my husband and I decided we were tired of the Swedish weather (= 2 months of summer, 10 months of darkness and snow?! NOPE! I’m from Brazil, I need my sunlight!). So we packed our car, traveled 3000km south, and moved to Spain. The humans in the family were in extasy, the canine in the family not so much… His favorite thing in life was rolling in the snow.
Astro was supposed to be the one and only, until another friend implanted in my head the idea of adopting a Spanish greyhound. It didn’t take much to convince me… All she had to do was tell me about galgos in Spain, how they’re mistreated and abused. I impulsively started writing to every galgo shelter I found online and in less than a week, I had found Luna. So this is the situation. She is currently being transported from Andalucía to Valencia and I don’t know what I was thinking, but it is what it is, I guess. Now I have a second dog.
Emotional blackmail so I stop working and start playing 🐶
Sunny winters in Valencia ☀️
Astro is not obsessed about anything, EXCEPT for this: retrieving a ball or a stick from the sea.
That’s something he can do for hours. I wish we lived closer to the dog beach or to some quiet lake, so he could get to enjoy summer his own way. In those moments, I miss Sweden (it’s rare though! I’m happy af in Barcelona). // Astro, 2015. Blurry and shot on film.
Astro at Gålö dog beach. 🐶🏖️
Somewhere in northern Sweden, 2 years ago. 🐶
